Top 50 Eli Manning Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I go through life with a smile because I know things can be worse than they are.”

— Eli Manning

2. “I go crazy trying to energize people, ’cause that’s what I am. I’m a battery. If you’re down, you can plug into me and get charged up.”

— Eli Manning

3. “I don’t think in the past. I don’t think in the future. You grasp the moment.”

— Eli Manning

4. “With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands.”

— Eli Manning

5. “We don’t mind working hard to be successful. We don’t mind working to be at our best.”

— Eli Manning

6. “I want to stand out. After my career is over, I want people to say, ‘He was different.’ It’s not to be outrageous. I just want people to know that when I played ball, I was having fun.”

— Eli Manning

7. “I don’t like the feeling of losing.”

— Eli Manning

8. “I’m not satisfied. I’m still enjoying this. I still feel like I’m in the best part of my career and I can play at a high level. This is what I love to do: playing football and winning games.”

— Eli Manning

9. “I think big-that’s what my mother taught me. If you think small and accomplish it, what does it mean? Who cares? To me the sky’s the limit, and I’m going to try and get there.”

— Eli Manning

10. “I leave my heart on the court every night. I earn my keep.”

— Eli Manning

11. “My main focus off the court is to be humble. My mom always told me to be a presentable young man. I’m not going to pretend to be something that I’m not and act a certain way for people. I plan on being myself. I like having a good time, but I still carry myself in an orderly fashion.”

— Eli Manning

12. “I literally and truly don’t care how many points I score. I get far more satisfaction out of doing the other things that make us winners.”

— Eli Manning

13. “In New York, they like winners. They don’t like second place.”

— Eli Manning

14. “It’s rare to have a best friend who is also your brother and also an NFL football player, and he knows exactly what I’m talking about.”

— Eli Manning

15. “I don’t play basketball for the money. I don’t play it for the crowd. When I didn’t have a friend, when I was lonely, I always knew I could grab that orange pill and go hoop. I could go and dunk on somebody. If things weren’t going right, I could make a basket and feel better.”

— Eli Manning

16. “I’m old school. I’m locked into my own little circle. If you cross the line, you’re going to get bit. They’ll always know where I’m coming from and once we hit the floor, there’s no doubt.”

— Eli Manning

17. “When I came to Ole Miss, everyone expected me to bring the program back to its glory days. I didn’t want to put that kind of pressure on myself.”

— Eli Manning

18. “I’ve been a leader practically my whole life. I don’t know what it is to follow.”

— Eli Manning

19. “Money isn’t always going to make it happen. It’s important to be around people that have the right kind of attitude, being happy about what you’re doing.”

— Eli Manning

20. “My thing is to be ready to pitch every five days and give my team a chance to win.”

— Eli Manning

21. “Strike one is a big, big pitch-you can do a lot after you get strike one, no matter how you get it.”

— Eli Manning

22. “I’m no Bob Gibson. I can tell you that.”

— Eli Manning

23. “One thing I’ve learned about the NBA is that you can have one good year, but you’ve always got to be progressing and working and making yourself better.”

— Eli Manning

24. “Coaches have the worst hours in the world. They go home maybe twice a week. They’re sleeping in their office. They’re watching film. It’s a brutal, brutal job and that’s why I respect them so much.”

— Eli Manning

25. “My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I’ve been able to spot them where I want to spot them.”

— Eli Manning

26. “I’ll always have a kid in me.”

— Eli Manning

27. “It’s all about having fun. Play hard and fair, don’t hurt anybody. Feel good about what you’re doing and how you’re doing it.”

— Eli Manning

28. “Be committed to whatever you’re doing. That’s something I’ve taken to heart and tried to do with whatever activities I take up.”

— Eli Manning

29. “As a quarterback, you try to manage the game. It’s not just throwing the ball. You have to manage the running game and getting out of bad situations and there are a lot of things to it. That’s what I’m trying to do.”

— Eli Manning

30. “Opportunities are running out, and this is the do-or-die situation when the ball is in your hands, and you can either help your team to victory or not. And so I want to be in those situations. I think about them, and almost look forward to them.”

— Eli Manning

31. “I’ve gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it’s my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It’s kind of my attitude.”

— Eli Manning

32. “I’ve always tried to be the person who says things no one else wants to say. I’ve always kept it in house, as opposed to going to the papers.”

— Eli Manning

33. “You know your goals and what you need to do to get better-just eliminate the bad plays.”

— Eli Manning

34. “I try to be a smart quarterback. I’m not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score.”

— Eli Manning

35. “My idea is, I shine, you shine. If I’m doing well and you’re with me, you do well.”

— Eli Manning

36. “We just have to go after our game plan.”

— Eli Manning

37. “I’m just trying to take what the defense gives me.”

— Eli Manning

38. “I’m going to go out and be the best quarterback I can be and get the most out of my potential.”

— Eli Manning

39. “Hey, hitting is hard-if you make good pitches that aren’t elevated in the zone, you’re going to have success.”

— Eli Manning

40. “I just want my sign and I want to throw it. I think it keeps everybody on their toes.”

— Eli Manning

41. “I’ll bring what I bring to the tale, but it’s good to know you have two guys with the experience and know-how in big games.”

— Eli Manning

42. “I’ve always been a player and a person who wanted to be the best at whatever he did.”

— Eli Manning

43. “You can’t join a team and give up on it because you lose a few games or things aren’t going well.”

— Eli Manning

44. “If you think individual, that’s how you’re going to come off. I’ve always given ‘team’ a chance.”

— Eli Manning

45. “The pitch count situatio-it doesn’t matter if you throw 120 or 80, whatever. It’s the quality of pitches that you throw.”

— Eli Manning

46. “Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.”

— Eli Manning

47. “My goal is to get outs as soon as I can. Strikeouts aren’t that big a deal to me.”

— Eli Manning

48. “I think the guys that are successful might be a little more relaxed and able to deal with the distractions.”

— Eli Manning

49. “My approach never changes from start to start.”

— Eli Manning

50. “No, we believed in ourselves all year. That’s the position you want to be in.”

— Eli Manning